Referee's report by Alfred North Whitehead, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution XIX. Second supplement to a memoir on skew variation' by Karl Pearson
Reference number: RR/23/70
Date: February 1916

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Sectional committee: Mathematics
Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. It 'concludes an important contribution' to the subject matter.
[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1916].
Endorsed on verso as received February 1916.
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- February 1916
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Alfred North Whitehead, Referee's report by Alfred North Whitehead, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution XIX. Second supplement to a memoir on skew variation' by Karl Pearson, February 1916, RR/23/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_23_70/referees-report-by-alfred-north-whitehead-on-a-paper-mathematical-contributions-to-the-theory-of-evolution-xix-second-supplement-to-a-memoir-on-skew-variation-by-karl-pearson, accessed on 16 May 2025
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IX. Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.—XIX. Second supplement to a memoir on skew variation External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 1st January 1916
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1916.0009
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Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution XIX. Second supplement to a memoir on skew variation' by Karl Pearson
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